boondoggle

noun

1. 毫无意义的工作（或事情）；浪费时间金钱的工作（或事情）
   a piece of work that is unnecessary and that wastes time and/or money

1. N-COUNT 浪费时间金钱的无用机构；毫无意义的活动
   People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
   1. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
      新的机场跑道耗资10亿美元，却没什么大用处。

1. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
   新的机场跑道耗资10亿美元，却没什么大用处。
2. "While the former athletes'village turned out to be a boondoggle, the Olympics spurred construction along False Creek that has done very well," said Campbell.
   “当前奥运村成为泡影后，冬奥会促使佛斯港湾的建筑水平有了显著提高。”坎贝尔说道。
3. And then there was another crazy idea of building a capital on a square of swampland that seemed mainly to be a boondoggle for wealthy land speculators at the time.
   此外，还有一个疯狂的搬迁首都例子，就是在一片沼泽地上建立一个都城，这在当时看来简直就是有钱的土地投机商的异想天开。
4. Still, it's likely the state's output of public resources for the anti-piracy program could end up a boondoggle if students move to encrypted file sharing programs.
   然而，这些反盗版程式最终可能徒劳无功，如果学生利用加密文件来分享档案。
5. Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.
   我们在水软化器上地投资打了水漂。
6. He spent too much time on boondoggle, and that's why he went nowhere.
   他之所以不成功，是因为在琐事上花了太多时间。
7. In here we have some boondoggle key chains.
   这里有一些手工钥匙链。
8. Condoms, honey bee insurance, roads in Guam, ice-breaking polar ships – think of a boondoggle and the almost$ 900bn US fiscal stimulus package appears to have it.
   避孕套、蜜蜂保险，关岛的道路、极地破冰船&你想到的任何一件琐碎事物，似乎都包含在美国接近9000亿美元的财政刺激方案之中。

noun

1. work of little or no value done merely to look busy

verb

1. do useless, wasteful, or trivial work